This doesn’t look good for that small company.
I am obviously on Ariel’s side (although I don’t know anything about her), but I don’t like the sound of Flickr’s actions as well — that they ban accounts that might even very loosely be considered as harassment
; that doesn’t sound like healthy practice either.
Great little guide by Simon Willison into the basics of Django debugging.
The only conclusion I can draw is that building a compelling application is far more important than choice of language. While PHP wouldn’t be my choice, and if pressed, I might argue that it should never be the choice for any rational human being sitting in front of a computer, I can’t argue with the results.
Amen. I have argued that PHP’s main strength is its deployability, and I hold that stance. I still think it’s a crappy language.
I have no idea why I haven’t bookmarked this essential guide to dashes before, but here it is.
I love my local grocer. He’s a man probably in his late fifties, although his retainment of hair colour could indicate him being slightly younger. I believe he is of Pakistani heritage, although I have nothing to build that on; I have never talked to him about it, because it would seem quite odd to do so. And exactly where he is from is of less importance to what I want to say: the important fact is that he wasn’t born or raised in Denmark.
It is my guess that he came to Denmark some twenty years ago; he is somewhat able to engage in conversation, but not on a very high level and his pronunciation is quite bad; again, these things are only a little relevant for what I want to say: he’s not a master of the Danish language and of Danish lingual customs.
But he seems eager to learn. In Danish — as in many other languages — it is custom to reply to ‘tak’ (‘thank you’) with ‘selv tak’ (‘you’re welcome’). He has understood this but hasn’t really understood exactly when to use it. And this is where it gets interesting.
When I go there I often carry a bag with me, because I’m used to do shopping that way. However, the proud grocer he is, he often offers me a plastic bag. As I’m already carrying a bag, thus making it a waste for him to offer me one, I usually decline. (Save for the rare cases when I’m not carrying a bag, and where he seems to quite consequently not offer me a bag.) I do so in the proper manner in Danish, by saying ‘nej tak’ (‘no thank you’). To this he simply replies: ‘selv tak’.
Obviously, he has caught on to ‘selv tak’ being a proper response to ‘tak’, but he hasn’t noticed in which situations this doesn’t apply. But this is a lingual error in the sweet department. And, after all, it’s better to be polite once too many than once too few.
Sad but true. What’s up with that?
Incredible what two days can do. I’m somehow reminded of Benedick in Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, who changes his viewpoint on love in an instant.
Amen. And I feel the same for Father’s Day (obviously) and Valentine’s Day. I have always had stronger opinions on Valentine’s Day; ever since I started seeing my girlfriend a little over two years ago (20 February 2006, to be precise) I have made it absolutely clear to her that I would not treat Valentine’s Day any different than any other day. This isn’t much a statement, of course, since we have our anniversary less than a week later but still. I hold my position.
Stop it. Now. I don’t want to have to look at the status bar to get an idea of where I’ll be going by following your link. And if you have to use such idiotic link descriptions, please apply a title. Please.
(This was spurred by Sam Ruby‘s Open Standards in which he uses this unreadable format. And I actually like Sam’s writings as a whole.)
Seth Godin talks about marketing, and the paradox of it being a bargain hunt, where it really should be an attempt to overbid each other.
Likewise, I have never seen the reason for having contributors to charity enter competitions or what not — if you personally gain something, where is the charity part in it? You should be donating to charity for every other reason than your own personal well-being; except perhaps your conscience.
This is Simply Jonathan, a blog written by Jonathan Holst. It's mostly about technical topics (and mainly the Web at that), but an occasional post on clothing, sports, and general personal life topics can be found.
Jonathan Holst is a programmer, language enthusiast, sports fan, and appreciator of good design, living in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe. He is also someone pretentious enough to call himself the 'author' of a blog. And talk about himself in the third person.